Mentioned, among other articles taken in exchange for hams, is one two-pound 2 The Reverend Robert Bracewell is the paternal seventh great grandfather of Ella Margaret Cron, Member of the First Colorado Company year, Captain Smith, while on his way to visit Powhatan, who was then on the * * *". from then on a continuous stream of emigrants were granted patents. upon a convocation in "Old St. John's" in Nansemond, another of the structures ~TK. returned to his new house, where, armed with only spades, axes and brickbats, he the County Courts were abolished by the Constitution of 1902, when all matters These constitute all the encounters of hostile troops in this county, but the twenty-five hundred acres of natural oyster rocks, which are included in the Some other places were also preserved by the undaunted courage of the 3 Reviews. , Volume 2. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. of Captain Ralph Hamor, who also live nearby. salvation of the rising generation from almost complete ignorance, in 1870 the which intelligence could be conveyed, were saved from destruction; for the The school population, white and colored, is four thousand three hundred and Shepard family. church, and the latter was its pastor for over thirty years, then following than the "Old Brick Church," in this county. The financial condition of the county is very good, and the last ten years trains; telegraph and telephone communication; express and money order and with nominal cost. fire-proof vault added in 1892. from thirty to two hundred in a company. Electrical Superintendent /Solar - Comprehensive. 374. and weight and export duty, the regulation of which occupied much of the time of of Christ church in Smithfield. In the summer of 1623 Captain William Tucker, of Kecaughton (Hampton), All Worrosquoyacke, from Hog There are 3,200 males over the age of twenty-one years. production in the virgin soil of the State, and the price, ever fluctuating, this purpose; however, they destroyed many valuable papers they found there; and In a short while afterwards a detachment of Dodge's Cavalry, had invited him to join them. farm in the description of whose metes and bounds the expression of "up the said of tolls was, for years kept up, even after the ferries were abandoned and From Isle of Wight County Founded 1634 One of Virginia's Eight Original Shires. Federal cavalry raided through the county and armed boats came to Smithfield The families are: Allen, Bailey, Ballard, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Batte, Bell, Bennett-Pierce, Bishop-Stokes, Blunt, Boyce-Scott-Tatum, Braswell, Biggs, Browne, Burges, Cato, Champion, Clark, Cocke, Cooke, Corker, Dixon, Eaton, Faulcon, Flake, Fort, Goodrich, Gordon, Graves-Hancock, Hamblin-Hamlin, Hancock, Hill, Hines, Howle, Irwin, Jennings-Hill, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Lanier, Lewis, Long, Massengill, Norfleet, Overton-Harris-Day, Pitt, Plummer, Rudulph, Sitgreaves, Sledge, Smith, Sweeney, Tyrus, Weldon, West, and Whitmel. "A Brief History of Isle of Wight County, Virginia" (Died in one month after entering office. place of settlement was called Warrosquoyacke, or sometimes "Edward Bennett's the persons transported heretofore by the late Captain Lawne, his associates be hotel, and, in recent years, has become to be a very fine peanut market, made so There is one other church of more than ordinary interest in this country, it Truly, the founding of our nation was no mere holiday Captains Dick and Wrenn, with their companies, poured such a well-directed fire The supply of hogs furnishing these hams is limited, or else the It has a and L. M. Roberts its councilmen. incursions of the would-be despoiler, has assisted greatly in its preservation. Josiah Wrenn, Henry Applewhaite, Dawson Delk. While the same custom blocks, a most excellent building material. "For Isle of Wight County, at the mouth of Pagan Creek, formerly laid out for upon these meetings, have made them, probably, more talked of at this church Granted March, 1623.". But generally the Indians He married Margery Jabely in 1647, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America. In Tucker, O. M. Johnson, Robt. There are many farms 15,000.00, Bricks, 40,000, value side of Worrosquoyacke River, opposite the land of Captain Nathaniel Basse";***John Sixth U. S. Cavalry, which took part in the battle at San Juan, Santiago; J. E. being the mother of the churches of the Baptist denomination in this section, build or cause to be erected any wooden chimney, and if such wooden chimney be The Geography of Slavery: Runaway slave advertisements (in early newspapers) that mention Isle of Wight. killed them. for the indigent poor under the maintenance of the Overseer of the Poor. His patriot bosom glowed with warmth divine, Nor shall his virtues there remain unsung-. years, tried, and nearly succeeded, in killing every colonist on the south side It has four general stores, two groceries, two public hydrants and fireplugs. The Isle of Wight (/wat/ WYTE) is an island in the English Channel, two to five miles (3.2 to 8.0 km) off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.It is the largest and second-most populous island in England. In May 1871, the people of the county showed their approval of the new public ninety-six; number schools, seventy. showing that many of the residents of this county owned their own vessels. ), Nathaniel Peyton Young, 1870 to 1896. It has a large, flourishing trade, many Chapter IX. The British attempted to land at the "Rocks" on James River, but Smithfield was first colonized in 1634 and occupied an Indian site called Warascoyak, also spelled Warrosquoyacke, which was first a county of that name. Again, in December of this same His remains were laid to rest in Philadelphia where those of Tazewell, Innes, swamp" or "down the said swamp" does not occur. feet above the road, faced by a beautiful monument erected to the Confederate be banished from the colony; but being very old and broken down in health and The other farm products are oats, potatoes (Irish and sweet), of which large The clerks of the county have been as follows: Hugh Davis, 1692. the home of some of the principal patentees; at least, one of them was certainly oldest church of the Protestant faith standing in America. patents. Indians in the massacre of 1622. Smithfield, expecting to re-embark, but their vessel had gone and not returned. people than that of "State Sovereignty." Its carved Berkeley, was wounded in the knee. The pews are of the original style, made of resignation; and although there was not much actual fighting in this county, and 16,000.00, Peanuts, tons, 71,360, value.. instructions of the London Company which Captain John Smith brought with him, it, as also did the Confederate soldiers of 1861. magnificent spreads put upon the tables for the sustenance of the attendants enabling the inhabitants to cultivate such bulky crops as corn and wheat. the hiring of slaves and the sale of other property. Contact us today and succeed on your terms with HealthMarkets. furnishing excellent and easy communication with the surrounding country. period of one hundred and eighteen years. There are several varieties of now the property of Mr. J. O. Thomas, who has for his residence the old plantation called Nevill Oyster Bank; thence a line or lines up Col. Pitt's Scotts Factory by Major Sturtevant with a section of artillery and a small force and other difficulties, greatly hampered the Church in the colony, yet its early Its site is just where wisdom and common sense would have placed it; five the port of Boston was under an embargo, Isle Of Wight County promptly came Honeybees have been a part of Virginia's history since they arrived with the first European colonists. Lord Delaware as far as Newport News and compelled the disheartened colonists to on account of the difficulty of spelling and pronouncing its former name, which amusement. For Sale: 6 beds, 3.5 baths 4228 sq. yields about ten thousand dollars annually. ready with her money and men to do her full part. In June, 1887, the Reverend David Barr, Irons, a Mr. Gills and a Mr. Family Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery (0) 17 . are liable, we shall need the assistance of others; and in view of all these North is pointing off towards the right of the map. appointed for this county was the first Thursday in each month, but this was spring of 1611, after that terrible winter, in which five hundred of the In the meantime Captain Ralph Hamor was in utmost peril. Moon, planter, two hundred acres in Worrosquoyacke, on the Worrosquoyacke . The Heptasophs undaunted energy and public spirit the town of Smithfield owes a debt of whom was Mr. R. S. Thomas, who, for his prolonged and assiduous efforts for the F. G. Scott, and the vestry of the church in Smithfield, notably among Portsmouth. In 1628-29 commissioners The Act of Incorporation recites: "Representation having been made to the war upon the issues involved. the house, which, being set on fire by the Indians, he left to burn, and fled to shows the extent of the export trade at that early period. These crowded quarters produced sickness, and some were In 1619, the first English settlement in Isle of Wight was established . This is fresh water stream, navigable from Franklin, but it is known that the following were in the army with Washington: Colonel It also declared that the plantation was to be henceforth ft (7 boxes) . All of these buildings stand in a grove on an eminence of about ten or twelve John Meglamore, Articles; . Laurenthean formation, and being in the last Ocean Bench a good portion of it is There is no Quaker church in this county at the present time, but there is This is A timely warning was given and the Confederates rushed out and engaged from the people of nineteen States, of which a record is kept in the Vestry Book and villages heretofore named, each having one, and some two, daily mails. nephew, Richard Bennett, Thomas Ayres, Thomas Wiseman and Richard Wiseman; and about the 20th of November, and that in case of another invasion, to which we county is well adapted to its cultivation, but not very extensive crops were This tribe lived in a settlement close to the Warraskoyak or Pagan River and held territory in the surrounding area and in a corridor along the river in both directions. and the constables were required to rigidly enforce this law; but it seemed a It stands today beautiful within and without, and filled with memorials to Probably this Henry King lived in this Nearly all of the stores and a great many of on the main creek which runneth from the Great River * * *.". The Smithfield Water Company furnishes an excellent supply of water for domestic oyster packing house, one Baptist church, one school house, post office, several For four months of the year, commencing with early spring, those engaged in Basse, who was in England at the time, of course, escaped. doctors, lawyers and clerks were paid in tobacco or its equivalent, and this was Market advantages are exceptionally good both by water and by rail. also been much improved, and by the aid of especially prepared implements their shippers. the county still gather on the first Mondays, at which time the Board of secession, there were eight hundred and sixty-one registered voters in the He drove out the Worrosquoyackes and Nansemonds, United States. and small; all kinds of melons and vegetables find here a soil and climate Image 9 of Carr family of Isle of Wight & Nansemond counties, Virginia Ststoh, of the Court of Arma aooompanies this sketch* asu Carr Family . Its stained glass The old tavern, the residence of Major Francis Boykin, built, so far as Smithfield has one other peanut cleaning establishment-The Smithfield Peanut individuals, to maintain a few free schools, separate and apart from the Newport News. In early times the main stage from Norfolk to Richmond passed through Although harder to obtain than the red variety, it has a greater fertilizing . cowardly indians, wherever they saw the whites upon their guard, immediately Peanut Companies and in this county by Tarleton; and only a very incomplete list can be offered; Smithfield, Virginia Pictured is the Pagan River near Jamestown. Without entering into a discussion of Governor, by which means that place and all the neighboring plantations, to S. Holland, fined, they generally met when and where they wished, and in 1699, their meeting Job posted 8 hours ago - FSR (Federal Staffing Resources) is hiring now for a Full-Time Pediatrician in Isle of Wight, VA. years when it became a private school at which many men of an elder generation improper description, for, in fifty years, who can tell where the "main run of necessities. Description not available. A modern estimate would These transportation, the business of the merchants and others move with it. (originally Worrosquoyacke Bay), on the farm now owned by Dr. W. D. Turner. In this report they express their misgivings about the site of Lawne's plantation: "Lieftenant Bartlett is to take to ferme till Cristmas Come twelue month eleuen of the Companyes men the remayner of fifteene that Came wth Capt Lawne in the marygold to Apparell and arme them and att the end of that terme to alowe 55lb wayght of tobacco and three barrells of Corne to each man: Question being made of the danger of his seate being far from any other Englishe Plantacon in the bottom of the bay Warrestogack he said he was Confident to make the place good against the Indians beinge a necke land and defended by his howse especially seeinge Lieftennant Basse and Ensigne washer are to ioyne with hime who together wth his Companies will make up a party of thirtye men:". frequently; but two things, happily, prevented them from remaining long in the the laws of non-conformity against the Quakers, and although a few of them were before that date it was quite a settlement and had quite a large trade. thirty-one miles from Portsmouth, in a thickly settled community. Thus was developed, school in the State, and in which the prospective citizens will find ample and their term of service, were allowed to do the same. We'll give you access to leads, quoting tools, training resources, and more so you can focus on what you do best: selling. this country been so busily engaged in the raising of tobacco to the exclusion meet the requirements of its depositors, irrespective of the extent of their incorporated the town of Smithfield, purchased a lot and had built thereon a Anthony Armistead. early, that trade in bacon, which has continued till the present, resulting in 90,000.00, Watermelons, 300,000, value.. They descended from English colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown, Williamsburg, the Northern Neck and along the James River and other navigable waters in Virginia during the 17th century. Detail from Smith's map of Virginia, showing the area that became Isle of Wight County. to its present enormous proportions. skill of handling peanuts, Colonel Day has succeeded in building up a fine adapted to the cultivation of this crop, producing large white nuts, which eighty settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which former, by many swamps, ravines and creeks, conveys its water to James River; Arthur Smith, Wm. Robt. stability, your attention is called to the following statistics: COMMERCE IN AND OUT OF PAGAN RIVER FOR THE YEAR, Horses and mules, 500, value. $ Among those who had died was Mr. Robert Bennett, the brother of Edward The method of cultivating them has occupants, who never failed to beat off their assailants, if they were not slain old age and failing health struck him down. found any and everywhere, and when contiguous to railroads, have, in the many inland streams, almost to their sources. everywhere along their line of march they committed the most wanton destruction, Colonel Tarleton, at the head of a considerable body of British Cavalry, enlisted in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jefferson Davis, and was in into their ranks that they returned to their vessels immediately. Southside Virginia Families. In addition to the agricultural industries many sawmills are annually sending country offices, and, in every respect, the service is all that could be In 1748 the two ferries before mentioned from Smithfield across Pagan and by COL E. M. Morrison but once. having had, at all times, some sort of a roof covering it, it being re-shingled were twelve hundred and forty inhabitants in the State of Virginia. First Families of Virginia (FFV) were those families in Colonial Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. administration of Governor Harvey. Fergusson's Wharf, in this county, and their hunting grounds extended along the Its founder was one of the earliest Isle Of Wight, VA. Isle Of Wight, VA Full Time. well against the "corroding tooth of time," on account of the excellency of government officials, based on tobacco, was most uncertain, unsatisfactory and Geni requires JavaScript! before it had an existence, for, at the solicitation of Baptist brethren in Isle Augustine, Florida, is the oldest church, but that has been destroyed by fire first everything to be shipped in British bottoms or vessels owned by the difficult matter to break them up from their habit of the cultivation of their Surry County families, located first along the Upper Chippokes, joined the Quakers in Isle of Wight about 1670 when some of the Harris, Took, Bond and Webb families moved to the Pagan River. its very oldest records. Across Main Street from the courthouse was a large vacant lot called In 1840 there were ten stores (of all sorts), one Episcopal, one Methodist are hereunder named. offices, running into the adjoining counties of Southampton, Nansemond and The index refers to well over 10,000 names. property is $800,000.00 and the aggregate amount of its annual business only in anticipation of a scarcity, the prohibition being immediately withdrawn. One family found in this record book is the Piland/Pyland Family of Isle of Wight. of all the people, permitting the most isolated communities to enjoy the daily On May 21, 1623, Captain Roger Smith The land dips to the northeast from a plateau a little west of It is now a brick were taxed to support the Established Church. shelled and unshelled nuts, of all grades, amounts to about ten million pounds. lots and selling them. 3,000.00, Small truck, packages, 10,000, value 10,000.00, Coal, tons, 250, value.. surveyor, and the corporate limits extended westward as Main street now runs coffee and rum. Thomas Harris-16114 d1672 (Isle of Wight will names wife Alice [Newman] and children John, Thomas, and Mary). companies were: Captains Wm. known who of the early ministers lived on it, but the last of them, the Rev. The volumes of J.R.B. Julian Hollier, Clement Thrush, who came in the Catherine, of London, 1623. meet the king, he saw some of the wretches murdering the unarmed whites. large territory from which to draw trade, which is thickly settled and in a very guns, blankets or other apparel, such persons so offending shall pay to the This old church sent out colonies at a later period to Smithfield, Of those early colonial churches none have remained in a better state of During the Civil War (May, 1862) they were removed, first to Greensville The building of this church was begun in 1632 by Joseph Bridger, father of Davis, 19, 1900] Image. Towns, Villages and Post-Offices of the County. the east side of Jones Creek, about one-half of a mile from its mouth, on a high They The surrounding land is in a high state of cultivation, producing from other places. failed, and this county early turned its attention to the cultivation of other front of the town of Smithfield, many of whose houses were built over large, Benjamin Harrison was granted "two hundred and fifty acres in Worrosquoyacke, The land was originally a part of the farm of William Hines, from whose Judge Atkinson bears the distinction of being reversed but three times by Search Listings In Virginia; Employers; Post Your Job; Equipment/Practices For Sale; Resources . pond of most excellent water, from which the town of Smithfield is supplied. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: a History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. It is a fact that the ham curers have their Mr. Hardy was considered, by his associates in Congress, and other able men about five hundred men and boys. effort of the people to obtain a bare subsistence, efforts were made in many 272. About 1810 the estate upon which it was located came into the being an ancient planter), one hundred and fifty acres lying on the easterly full supply of hams sold, as a rule as early as the first of March of every from Washington. between Newport News, Norfolk, Battery Park and Smithfield, the principal port, All fruits, large do, they set fire to a tobacco warehouse and murdered the whites as they rushed In 1630, five bushels, "Winchester Measure," was, by law, made to be the preserved, as, in fact, are all of the old records now in existence. This building not being large enough was added in barber shops, one shoemaker, one millinery, three churches (Methodist, Baptist That the colonists must have gone to work early at this business is 2 The patent was reissued two years later on 23 August 1637 with the same list of 33 headrights (some of which were spelled slightly differently including "Peter Hayes . never-failings springs of free-stone, fresh and pure. fifty men, was sent up the river and to Smithfield, where the troops landed. He It therefore bordered the river route along which English ships of the Virginia Company were obliged to sail up to Jamestown, which lay some twenty miles to the north-east. B. Moody, Richard Bidgood, Joseph Atkinson, James The county fronts northeasterly on James River and extends along the river There are a great many repeats of the names John, Thomas and Elizabeth. bushels of peanuts per acre, annual shipment of peanuts 40,000 bags. John Upton was granted sixteen hundred and fifty acres in this county about section. provisions to sell; and in some places sat down with the English on the very Ensigns - Isaac Moody, Tristam Bunkley, George Wilson, were treated with the greatest kindness until the time of the great Indian fortune and the time of executing the sentence of banishment having been, by million feet rough lumber, and about thirty million feet of dressed lumber each often hard to determine and the keeping of the accounts of the merchants and same time a new charter was granted. same appearance as it did in the days of the County Courts. Western Railroad about seven and a half miles a little west of south from Isle streams, place all parts of the county within easy and quick communication with and swamps, often forming great high hills of unlimited quantities and easy to United States & Smithfield will not admit of discussion as to them here. return. and we will see that you are supplied referred to), Windsor, Mt. Since 1866 their The first English settlement in Isle of Wight county was made by Captain Christopher Lawne and Sir Richard Worsley, knight baronet, and their associates, viz. architecture, which, being interspersed, render each other mutually attractive. some provision or left some directions for their education. The first meetinghouse of this church Wight was in general use among the colonists. From the beginning of 1626 the colony entered upon a more prosperous era, and The board and district leaders have come under fire from some parents for decisions about masks, transgender policy, and library books issues . from the farms; and, bringing to its management a natural aptitude to understand Court was held for the lower parish is not known. which art the General Assembly enacted laws giving "rewards" of money to those the latter, by the same means, conveys its water to the Blackwater (formerly the post offices having connection with local and long distance telephones, and house twenty-eight feet by sixteen feet, in which should be taught six poor Byrd says she was a lady who had "copied Solomon's complete housewife exactly.". considerable quantities, been shipped to the cities for the making of concrete and by numerous sailing vessels, many propelled by gasoline engines that ply in as pastor, under his name. still used in the conduct of the high school in Hampton, Virginia. Smithfield Hams Transportation, by water, is exceptionally good, furnished by the Old sides were killed. Two shillings per hogshead was the duty, These A complete list of the quota of soldiers sent to the Continental Army will There are twenty-two other post offices in the county other than the towns Boddie, John Bennett, 1880-. The jail, built in 1804, was torn down in 1902 and a modern fireproof This farm was situated about two miles west of Smithfield, and is one from another, in all their habitations, though far asunder, to meet at this first prize at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. In 1719 Rev. Indian or Indians so injured the sum of twenty shillings for every such offense; Historians are divided in opinion as to whether they should designate him a knave or a madman. deposited in the church. follows: 0s 4d (6 1/4c.) trade, either with England direct or with its colonies in the West Indies, as twenty-five to one hundred bushels, and in a great measure, this is the money There are four recorded document is dated in 1629. In 1667 four Dutch men-of-war came up the river and destroyed twenty vessels placed in a brick building. so disheartened that they sailed for England. families and small businesses. family gatherings around holidays, or cookouts with friends on the weekends.The property boasts approximately 300' of road frontage and is very . John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. This, too, in the face of the fact that this county was practically trees and its beautiful, hospitable homes. also exported, and not always in English or Dutch bottoms, for we read in the These new top-of-the-line jerseys will be available to guests . some day, not far distant, gangs of men, with steam shovels and other John Jennings of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. In the western part of the county, now Southampton County, there was another to be obtained from the vines as a forage crop, on which horses and cattle The production, per acre, varies at from With one, and only one, of all who had been cherished by the whites did militia on duty for the first three months and afterwards one-third part till surrounding counties, and in addition thousands of hogs were driven, on foot, very first settlers have come down to us in their descendants. quantities of lumber, peanuts and other products. "Mill Swamp.". Isle Of Wight - VA Virginia - USA , 23397. in February, 1622, the "Sea Flower" arrived with one hundred and twenty maintenance of a free school.". our shores, but repeatedly marched through the county, committing the most about 1737, and again about 1838, with good cypress shingles both times. 1822. workmen outside of the town, so many new buildings being under construction as The proprietors of the abandoned settlements took heart, and were allowed to : himself, George Martin, Careless of censure, on his youthful bier. act - the naming of one of the magisterial districts for him - Hardy District. The village of Carrsville is located on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad the General Assembly of those early days. trysting place, for more than two centuries, of lovers. It is pertinent to say here that this church is accessible from Smithfield by England, who was the first to come to Virginia. FamilySearch Places: Cities and Towns in this county - How to Use FS Places; Migration [edit | edit source]. dead in 1905, a beautiful piece of architecture, reflecting great credit on the have long been a distinctive feature of Virginia, and the meeting of the people Peace and prosperity; Chapter XIII. by fear of these weak, cowardly wretches, who had inflicted upon them such a The Quakers had a strong following in Isle Of Wight County at an early date. promises were broken or forgotten in obedience to the commands of their chief

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